Are MCPs Overhyped? A Rant about MCPs
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Claim: Smithery argues the missing piece is an orchestration layer that gives agents context action and learning. Demonstration shows an agent using MCPs to search GitHub and create a Linear ticket from a GitHub issue end to end, reporting a rising count of MCP servers and tool calls. The talk lists concrete gaps — fragmentation and no clear reputation or registry, clunky installs and insecure servers, hosting resumability, payments, discovery and observability — and shows a working playground built on thousands of curated MCPs.
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